.BATON ROUGE, La.– LSU women’s ping pong director coach Taylor Fogleman announced on Thursday that Addison Lanton, a citizen of Elgin, Illinois, has signed along with LSU for autumn 2025.” Our team’re thrilled to authorize a player and also individual of Addison’s ability to the system,” said Fogleman. “At such a young age, she has actually presently achieved an amazing amount. Our team are actually therefore glad to her moms and dads, Robert and also Collete, for entrusting our team along with her development.
I know Tiger Country is visiting enjoy viewing her compete following August.”.Lanton, the No. 1 player in Illinois, is a senior at ICL Academy, ranked 18th nationally for the course of 2025, and also devotes to the Bayou Bengals for the autumn of 2025.Her latest accomplishments feature putting 4th at the USTA Spring Season National Championships and gaining the 2023 Illinois State Singles Ping Pong Champion. In high school play, Lanton has not dropped an embeded in the IHSA competitors given that 2021.In 2023, Lanton got the Junior Female Gamer of the Year honor from the USTA Chicago Area Ace Honors.
She gained the first-place headline in every age she contended in, culminating along with the 18U in the summer months of that year.In August, Lanton contended in the ITA National Summer Season Championships in Memphis, TN. The Illinois native placed as a quarterfinalist, highlighted by removing the No. 2 seed in the event, Duke’s Emma Jackson.To learn more on the LSU girls’s ping pong program, follow the Tigers on Twitter @lsuwten, Instagram @LSUWTen, and Facebook.com/ lsuwten.